strange behavior of restore(8)

[Mike Tancsa]

On 10/24/2011 10:14 AM, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Warren Block wrote:
>>
>>> Lo and behold! On an amd64 system with 8GB RAM and 2 2.66GHz Xeon
>>> CPUs, "restore -rNf home.dmp" has successfully completed after 3 hours
>>> 15 minutes.
>>
>> What are the specs for the system that wrote the dumpfile originally 
> 
> 8.2-RELEASE-p3 amd64, 8GB RAM and 2xXeon 2.66GHz
> 
>> and the system that couldn't restore it?
> 
> FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p10 i386, 256M RAM, Pentium II 350.80MHz (yes,
> it's pretty old).

ufs1 vs ufs2 ?  Also if there are a lot of files, restore needs quite a
bit of RAM.

	---Mike


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